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Fallout from the SolarWinds hack continues to expand. A handful of major tech companies, including NVIDIA and Intel, have joined the growing list of organizations affected by the unprecedented hack US officials have blamed on Russia.  The Wall Street Journal now reports it has new evidence that at least two dozen companies — including NVIDIA, Intel, Cisco and Belkin — used SolarWinds’ Orion…

The life of a smartphone or tablet can be greatly extended with the help of a custom ROM. And now those with the Google Nexus 7 (2013) can now get a taste of Android 10, as the tablet has gained official LineageOS 17.1 support. Google’s classic affordable Android tablet isn’t the only device to be added to the latest Lineage supported list. The 2013 Nexus 7, Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Lite (Wi-Fi)…

HBO Max launched without support for Roku and Fire TV, but it did come with support for Google’s Android TV platform. Since then, the app hasn’t seen many notable updates, but this week there’s a big one. HBO Max for Android TV now supports 4K HDR content. v50 of the HBO Max app for Android is now rolling out, and it brings with it support for 4K HDR as well as associated standards, such…

Xiaomi said it will be the first company to launch a flagship with the latest Qualcomm flagship chipset, and we finally have a date to mark on our calendars – Monday, December 28. The phone will be unveiled first in China and will have “many incredible breakthroughs”, as the company put it on Weibo. The Xiaomi Mi 11 is expected to arrive in two variants – a vanilla option for…